High in the sky, shafts of rosy light pierced the drifting clouds and shone upon the lake, rippling with the water in boundless splendor. Dragon cries and thunderclaps rang through the Nine Skies together, stirring Heavenly Fortune and shaking the Dragon Palace until dust drifted everywhere.
At that moment, the dozens of Travelers hidden within the Dragon Palace all looked utterly bewildered.
Everyone saw the magnificent phenomena that suddenly erupted throughout Heavenly Fortune Lake. They also sensed a wisp of newly formed "Dao Qi" suddenly coalesce before rising into heaven and earth, bringing about this astonishing spectacle. Yet none of them could understand just what "thing" had first formed Dao Qi here, or where its precise source lay...
Generally, there were only two possible explanations for a phenomenon marking the first formation of Dao Qi. Either a "Magic Treasure" had suddenly undergone sublimation, its internal Dao Rhyme reaching completion, and obtained an Opportunity beyond ordinary imagination, thereby breaking its shackles and rising in status to produce its first Dao Qi. This mostly happened when a Peerless Treasure advanced into a Supreme Treasure. For instance, if Ren Ye's Nine Peaks Immortal Sword received the enlightenment and reforging of the Nine Peaks immortal treasures and returned to Supreme Treasure status in a single leap, it would certainly release this aura of newly formed Dao Qi...
Or someone at fifth-grade Great Perfection had attained Understanding and entered the Dao here, advancing straight into the sixth grade Dao-Touching Realm. Only then would they release the first wisp of Dao Qi in their life, resonating with heaven and earth and bringing down an astonishing phenomenon.
Of course, certain extremely unusual circumstances could also produce a phenomenon of newly formed Dao Qi. An innate being might devour someone else's lingering Dao Qi, for example, allowing it